Which box do I check?
What happens when someone spends their whole life checking that box for βotherβ?
Weβre constantly checking boxes on forms, whether itβs for eye color or sexual orientation. Those categories can be empowering or, they can make you feel invisible, like when Mona painted a portrait of 100 New Yorkers based on the New York Census data, and realized she couldnβt see herself. There was no βArabicβ box to check in the censusβthe closest being βwhiteβ or βother.β So what happens when someone spends their whole life checking that box for βotherβ?Β Mona talks with nonbinary British Iraqi drag queen Amrou Al-Kadhi about embracing the contradictions of having multiple, wonderful, identities, that SOME people see as conflicting.